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Baking From the Heart – Homemade Cat Treats

Updated 8 October 2020 By Pawesome Cats 10 Comments

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Tuna flavoured cat treats are easy to make with just a few simple ingredients. The purrfect Valentines Day gift for your cat. | Baking From the Heart – Homemade Cat TreatsShow your cat how much you love them this Valentine’s Day by baking them some delicious homemade cat treats. All natural, these tuna flavoured kitty treats are easy to make with just a few simple ingredients.

The Pawesome Cats family and their friends have happily taste-tested the tuna heart cat treats, and gave them a big paws up.

Tuna Heart Cat Treats

makes 30-40 cat treats

Ingredients:

  • 150g canned tuna, in oil
  • 1 cup rice or oat flour
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbsp dried catnip
  • extra olive oil

Preheat your oven to 175˚C (350˚F), or 160˚C (320˚F) if you have a fan-forced oven.

Combine drained tuna, rice or oat flour, egg and catnip in a bowl, and mix thoroughly with a fork until combined. The mixture should hold together but not be excessively sticky. If the mixture is too dry, you can add a little extra olive oil as required.

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Roll the dough into ½ teaspoon sized balls and place on a lined biscuit tray, flatten with the back of a spoon.

To add the heart-shaped pattern, you can use a commercial stencil although I improvised and made a heart stencil using a knife and piece of raw potato. Press the heart shape gently into the top of the treat so that it leaves an indented heart shape pattern.

Tuna flavoured cat treats are easy to make with just a few simple ingredients. The purrfect Valentines Day gift for your cat. | Baking From the Heart – Homemade Cat Treats

Place the treats into the oven and bake for 10-12 minutes until they are dry and slightly golden on top.

Allow to cool completely and place in an airtight container. The treats can be stored in the fridge for approximately 7-10 days, although if your cats love them as much as mine do, I doubt they’ll last that long.

Tuna flavoured cat treats are easy to make with just a few simple ingredients. The purrfect Valentines Day gift for your cat. | Baking From the Heart – Homemade Cat Treats

Happy Baking and Happy Valentines Day!

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  1. TERRY LARSEN says

    3 January 2016 at 6:46 pm

    Just made these treats for my “kiddo” Sami. Add some water to the dough if you use tuna in water not oil. Sami actually “chewed” these treats instead of swallowing them whole! Not sure how long they’ll keep but I did put them in an airtight container in fridge after cooled. Nice to know what’s in the food I’m feeding my baby. Not concerned anymore about the added junk in store bought treats. Sami ate 6 in a row and I don’t feel guilty for it because I knew what he was eating! Would have tried them myself if it weren’t for the cat nip! Ha! Thank you for sharing.

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  2. meowmeowmans says

    13 February 2014 at 1:23 pm

    Oooooh, these sound nommy! We may have to wait for a few days to make some, though, as we’re supposed to get 14 inches of snow starting tonight. 🙂

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  3. Kitties Blue says

    13 February 2014 at 12:30 pm

    These sound so super nommy. Mom just sent the recipe to the printer. She’ll just have to get some oat or rice flour. We’d send her out after it tomorrow, but we are getting buried in snow so guess we’ll have to wait a couple days. Hope y’all get a big batch for V’day Friday.

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  4. Traveling Cats says

    13 February 2014 at 6:48 am

    They look fantastic. A perfect Valentine gift for that very special kitty in our life.

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  5. rmudge says

    13 February 2014 at 5:39 am

    Great idea! Do you have a recipe for chicken treats? Cinco and Manna are big chicken fans 🙂 I would totally try this.

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  6. Megan Folse says

    13 February 2014 at 5:27 am

    Those look pretty tasty even though they aren’t for us humans. I wonder if my dogs would like them.

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  7. SlimDoggy (@MySlimDoggy) says

    12 February 2014 at 11:10 pm

    Baking your own means you don’t have to worry about the ingredients being ‘less than stellar’!

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  8. Sue at Talking Dogs says

    12 February 2014 at 10:26 pm

    Tuna plus catnip? Skeeter says: what’s not to love?!

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  9. Miss Harper Lee says

    12 February 2014 at 9:25 am

    What an excellent recipe. We don’t have kitties, but have friends who do, and now we can make treats to give to them. Thank you!

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  10. The Island Cats says

    12 February 2014 at 8:46 am

    Oh we gotta get the mom to make these for us since we can’t use the oven ourselves.

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